A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



wife. 31 The site cannot now be identified, but it 

 should be noted that in a map of Hampshire, dated 

 1 80 1, Thele Bridge is the name given to the bridge 

 which carries the Petersfield and Farnham road 

 over the Rother, about half a mile north-east of the 

 church. 



There pertained to the manor of Greatham in 

 1292 a market, the profit of which yielded \^s. a. 

 year 33 ; no subsequent mention of this market has 

 been found. A free fishery is mentioned in the 

 conveyance of the manor from John Love to 

 Thomas Cowper and his heirs in i633. 33 



The old church, now disused and 

 CHURCH ruinous, lies at the south end of the 

 village, at the junction of the main 

 road from Petersfield to Farnham, with a side 

 road. It is built of rubble composed of sandstone 

 and ironstone with sandstone ashlar dressings. The 

 chancel has a slate roof and the nave is roofless. 

 The church is a small thirteenth century build- 

 ing, consisting of chancel, 20 ft. by 1 1\ ft., and nave 

 4 1 ft. by 23^ ft. (external measurements), with 

 north porch. 



The chancel has a pseudo-Gothic two-light east 

 window, and two plain lancets in the north and 

 south walls, only those in the south wall showing 

 any ancient ashlar. At the east end of the south 

 wall is a plain locker ; the altar rails are eighteenth 

 century balusters. The chancel arch, which is 

 built up, with a door giving access to the chancel, 

 is eighteenth century, three centred, with a project- 

 ing keystone and chamfered strings at the springing ; 

 these last seem to be twelfth century stones re-used. 

 Part of the south jamb of a thirteenth century 

 chancel arch remains. 



The nave was originally lighted by two small 

 lancets on each side, with plastered splays. In the 

 fourteenth century the eastern pair were built up, 

 and two-light windows with wide rear arches 



inserted further to the east, to light the nave altars. 

 In the south wall the western lancet also was blocked, 

 possibly at a later date, and two windows of a single 

 light each inserted, one on each side of the south 

 doorway. The nave was entered by north and 

 south doorways, of which the north remains entire, 

 with a pointed arch of a single chamfered order 

 and segmental rear-arch. Of the original south 

 doorway only part of the east jamb remains. 



The west wall of the nave was rebuilt at a late 

 date, with ashlar angle buttresses and a pseudo- 

 Gothic two-light west window. 



The north porch is ruinous and overgrown with 

 ivy. It is of wood with low stone side walls and 

 masonry benches. It retains some of its mediaeval 

 framing, though reconstructed at a late date. 



In the chancel is a panelled altar tomb of ala- 

 baster with an alabaster effigy of Dame Margery 

 Caryll, 1632, erected by her kinsman John Love. 

 The covering slab is of black marble, and the 

 inscription is on an alabaster tablet under an arched 

 pediment carried by black marble columns with 

 Corinthian capitals, and surmounted by strapwork, 

 with a lozenge-shaped shield bearing the arms of 

 Caryll impaled with Freeland. 



The new church, dedicated to the honour of 

 St. John the Baptist, stands about 200 yards away, 

 and consists of chancel, nave and south-east tower 

 with spire, and contains no ancient fittings. It was 

 erected in 1875 partly at the expense of Mr. W. 

 F. Foster, and was completed in 1897 by Mr. 

 Harrison, who added the spire as a memorial of 

 the jubilee of Queen Victoria. 



The advowson of Greatham church belonged to 

 the Bardolfs in I33O 84 and descended with the 

 manor. 35 



The parish registers commence in 1571. 



The national schools (mixed) were built about 

 1850. 



HARTLEY MAUDITT 



Herlege (xi. cent.) ; Hertlegh, Hurtleye, or 

 Hartley Maudit (xiii. cent.). 



Hartley Mauditt is an agricultural parish of 1 ,403 

 acres situated on the upper greensand formation, 

 which gradually rises to a considerable height east- 

 ward of the Alton branch of the river Wey, and 

 terminates at Hartley Hanger in an abrupt escarp- 

 ment of malm rock that slopes down, covered with 

 wood, to Woolmer Forest below. The village, 

 which is small and scattered, is on an old road 

 from West Worldham to Oakhanger, which skirts 

 Hartley Park and Candovers farm. 1 The main 

 road from Selborne to Alton lies a little to the 

 west. To the north the parish closely adjoins the 

 small village of West Worldham. The boundary 



of Woolmer Forest towards Hartley Mauditt was 

 known, in the seventeenth century, as Mauditt 

 HatchJ 



Amongst the place-names in the parish may be 

 mentioned Mulcwellcroft and Candever (xiv. 

 cent.), 3 Pagles Green, Bindsworth, Week Com- 

 mon, Haukes Grove, Pillcroft, Barlie Bridge and 

 Hallowell Close (xvi. cent.) ; * and Cooks Garden 

 and Denham (xvii. cent.). 5 



Under the Confessor, the manor of 

 MANORS H4RTLET was held by Guert as an 

 alod, and at the time of the Domes- 

 day Survey by William Maudit (Malduith) of the 

 Conqueror. 6 The manor remained (with the ex- 

 ception of occasional forfeitures) in the possession 



11 Feet of F. Hants, East. I Geo. I. 

 11 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. I. No. zo. 

 a Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Chas. I. 

 * Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. III. ist nos. 

 No. 66. 



p.m. ser. 2. W.and L. 10, No. 217 ; and 

 Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Chas. I. 



1 See p. 510. 



* White's Selborne, i. 2Z. 



Ibid p 47Edw.H,. I ,, n o,No.,o i 3 ^I^^' '"' ^ ^ 

 F. Hants Trin. .9 Eli*. ; Inq. 4 Duchyof Lane. Misc.Bk,. ,08, .,6. 



508 



5 Add. Chart. 16,119 and Misc. Inq. 

 p.m. pt. 1 8, No. 26. 



V.C.H. Hants, i. 488, 491. The 

 hundred and shire testified that William 

 Maudit also claimed one hide of the 

 land of Bramshott manor which was in 

 Hartley. 



